Win a Limited-edition µTorrent Shirt

As promised, we’re giving away the ten limited-edition µTorrent t-shirts we have left in our office. How do you win one? Make sure you read these handy contest rules and then proceed.

Chances are, if you’re reading this, by now, you’ve already seen what our µTorrent t-shirts look like. Now, we’re taking this back to Tumblr where we encourage you to Reblog the following post and, while you’re at it, download some amazing tracks from the legendary DJ Shadow. Even cooler than getting all this for free? How about the fact that every time someone downloads the media player, chock full of awesome digital goods, the artist gets paid? That’s right. Sounds like a win-win to us.

Anywho, here’s that link to the Tumblr post:

http://utorrent.tumblr.com/post/27937378111/want-another-chance-to-win-a-limited-edition

Instagram

http://instagram.com/p/NcIJy9jkZu/

That’s it, and if you’re super cool, you’ll spread the word to your friends by tweeting the photo out to your friends (you can do that now).

Repin to Win

There’s always amazing stuff to be discovered on Pinterest. Don’t believe us? Check out this out. Wouldn’t make a bad birthday cake. We also created a Green Superheroes board you might enjoy. But, before you get sucked into a hole, make sure you Repin the following image and follow us on Pinterest. A limited-edition T-shirt could easily be yours.

http://pinterest.com/pin/89649848803150198/

Reblog to Win

Tumblr is our favorite place to find cool stuff from around the web and the best thing about it is you can reblog and share some of your favorite pictures, quotes, posts, and whatever else suits you. Case in point, below. Make sure you follow us as on Tumblr if you haven’t yet:

http://utorrent.tumblr.com/post/27509788259/who-would-like-to-win-a-limited-edition-shirt-from

Security: Help Us Protect You

The µTorrent client is one of the most popular applications on the Internet. Hundreds of millions of users are torrenting everyday and many of them are using µTorrent to do so. All of us at BitTorrent realize the importance of our products in the daily lives of our users and want to make sure we do everything we can to protect you.

We develop our applications based on latest software security best practices and we regularly test our applications for security vulnerabilities. This enables us to deliver a secure and reliable application that can be used with confidence. Having said that, we want to hear from our users, security experts and hackers! To help us protect our users, we ask you to talk to us.

We invite everybody to report any security vulnerability (confirmed or unconfirmed) to us. Just send an email to security – at – utorrent – dot – com with the details of the vulnerability. We will look into each and every email and make sure that we address the software vulnerabilities in a timely manner. Then, we will work with the individual who reported the vulnerability (only if they want to) for a public disclosure of the vulnerability and that person can claim the credit for helping us protect our users and, of course, for discovering the vulnerability.

P.S. Please use this email to send us information about potential software vulnerabilities as opposed to feature requests. All feature requests should be posted on our forum athttp://forum.utorrent.com

Farid

You'd enjoy going to work when you get to build something cool that millions of people can use easily and securely. I am working on the next cool(est) thing while being the security guy at BitTorrent.

tagged: ΜTORRENT BUG REPORTS, ΜTORRENT FEATURES, ΜTORRENT FORUMS, ΜTORR

Speed Up Your File Transfers with Connectify

We’re about to show you a video that’ll change your mind about the speed and reliability of your Internet connection. You’ll witness engineers eating their own dog food. Sounds disgusting, right? Well, it’s not quite what you think. Dogfooding is a techie term used amongst software companies to describe how their developers demonstrate the competency of the product they’re promoting.

Much like the inner-workings of the BitTorrent protocol, where the more seeders you have, the faster you’re able to download a file, Connectify gives you a faster connection as you add wireless networks. Their latest product, Dispatch, is especially useful for you. With each Internet connection you add, you can double and even triple the speed of your BitTorrent file transfers! To paraphrase: the more Internet connections you have, the faster you’ll go. This concept sounds familiar, huh?

If you like the idea of finding a solution to the occasional speed issue you’ve experienced (hint: it’s probably your wi-fi connection), here’s your solution. And you can help make it a reality by backing their Kickstarter campaign. Throw these guys a bone already. 

kara3murphy

Kara leads the social media efforts for both BitTorrent and µTorrent. When not hanging out online, engaging users on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr - to name a few - she can be found attending concerts, reading, writing, running, taking massive amounts of photos with an iPhone, learning to code, and helping curate the aptly-titled photography advent calendar,PhotoAdvent.

It’s Here. Announcing the Native µTorrent Application for Android.

A while back we introduced µTorrent Remote for Android which allows users to manage their torrents from their phone. We received a lot of great feedback, but the most popular question was:  “When will a fully featured µTorrent Client be available for Android?”

For the past few months our engineers have been hard at work developing a mobile BitTorrent app that is worthy of the name “µTorrent.” In order to live up to our high standards, we knew that the app would need to be fast, lightweight, powerful and better than anything else currently on the market. After months of hard work (and copious amounts of coffee) we are proud to release µTorrent Beta for Android to the Google Play store.

µTorrent Beta for Android offers several features such as:

• Fast, easy on-the-go downloading of torrents
• No speed or size caps on downloads (mobile data limits still apply)
• RSS subscriptions
• Instant access to our growing library of featured content

We are very excited to add uTorrent for Android to our mobile product arsenal that is already reaching almost 4 million users. If you have any comments, feature requests or bug reports (this is in beta after all), let us know in the comments. We’d love to hear from you.

R3TR0

Dan works with the community team at BitTorrent Inc. He can usually be found writing blog posts, answering questions for users or browsing Reddit when he thinks no one is looking. He likes working at BitTorrent because they let him keep his Star Trek bobble heads on his desk.

Access µTorrent Remote on Your iPhone

A lot of you have been asking if there will be a native app for µTorrent on iOS and while we haven’t gotten to that just yet, we do have a way for you to easily receive the benefits of µTorrent Remote right from your iPhone or iPad. Think of it as anywhere access to µTorrent, where you can add/start/stop/monitor downloads, on the go.

To set µTorrent Remote on your iOS device, go to https://remote.utorrent.com with the mobile Safari browser and then click the “share” button on the bottom of the browser (where you normally add bookmarks). Then, choose “Add to Home Screen,” and you should get see the beautiful µTorrent icon on your iPhone or iPad. Instructions on how to setup your µTorrent Remote server are here: http://help.utorrent.com/customer/portal/articles/256731-how-to-set-up-utorrent-remote

Introducing BTC: A Torrenting Shortcut

We’ve been experimenting with a tool designed to complement the µTorrent UI, and save time by automating repetitive tasks. With apologies to shortcut-haters everywhere, we’d like to introduce BTC.

BTC is a command line tool to control µTorrent. If you’re a fan of command lines, this is a tool for you. If you’re new to command lines, BTC is a chance to try them out.

BTC allows you to add, remove, list, start, and stop your torrents. You can list the files in your torrents and monitor their progress, download them on another computer, or, if they are media, stream them from anywhere.

You can also prompt an action for when a torrent is completed, such as having another program run or having your computer shutdown after a download. We find it very handy.

Some more advanced features allow you to filter and sort BTC results. This enables you to do more complex requests such as “remove all the completed torrents that are bigger than 1GB”, “stop torrents that download faster than a given speed”, “shutdown my computer when none of my torrents download anymore”, “download on my computer the three biggest torrents completed”, or “stream all the videos that are completed in my client right now.”

This is an open source project under MIT license, which means that you can contribute and add the features you like. You can also request a feature, if writing code isn’t your thing.

BTC is written in Python and works on Linux, Mac and Windows.

The project is hosted on GitHub. That page also has tutorial to get you started.

Give it a spin and let us know what you think.

R3TR0

Dan works with the community team at BitTorrent Inc. He can usually be found writing blog posts, answering questions for users or browsing Reddit when he thinks no one is looking. He likes working at BitTorrent because they let him keep his Star Trek bobble heads on his desk.

µTorrent for Android goes WiFi Only

You asked for it. You got it.

As of today, the µTorrent for Android app has been updated to include a WiFi-only option. You can get the free download or update here.

The new WiFi-only mode feature pauses download activity when you’re outside a WiFi area and automatically resumes downloading once WiFi is accessible again. This means you can download media without running up mobile data charges.

µTorrent for Android provides intelligent, on-the-go downloading. No size or speed caps on media files. It also includes RSS subscriptions that feature various independent artists (brought to you by BitTorrent).

Thank you for your input. You have helped us build an incredibly powerful app.  Try out the new feature, and keep the feedback coming.

R3TR0

Dan works with the community team at BitTorrent Inc. He can usually be found writing blog posts, answering questions for users or browsing Reddit when he thinks no one is looking. He likes working at BitTorrent because they let him keep his Star Trek bobble heads on his desk.

tagged: ANDROID, WI-FI ONLY OPTION ΜTORRENT FOR ANDROID, ΜTORRENT FOR ANDROID

1. abhishek

   NOVEMBER 28, 2012 AT 7:12 AM

   i really want utorrent app for ios
2. Tabby

   NOVEMBER 28, 2012 AT 1:14 PM

   I have the.droid x 2 & downloaded the utorrent. But the torrent wont download anything. Please help
3. Raj

   NOVEMBER 29, 2012 AT 3:54 PM

   I love you guys thx for the new feature for android but some times i find abit buggy in my Samsiung Galaxy S3 otherwise u guys r d Best 
4. jimmy

   NOVEMBER 30, 2012 AT 7:00 PM

   the most stupidest update ever…. my 4g just so happens to be faster than my wifi connection now i have to use this subpar torrent client this utorrent client was the best but has now gone down the shitter
5. Oskar

   DECEMBER 1, 2012 AT 3:57 AM

   Hey is it possible to choose what files to download and which ones to not within a folder that im downloading? like on the desktop version you can choose which files you want to download within the folder??
   Thanks,
   Oskar
6. Bill

   DECEMBER 4, 2012 AT 8:14 PM

   
   

   Stop adding dumb ads and bloatware.
   Don’t you understand users will start moving to other Bitorrent clients!